David Ives

Guess What Sondheim's Next Show Is About?

Stephen Sondheim and David Ives have been working on a new musical called All Together Now, which is reportedly based on a small moment in one of Ives' plays and which goes backwards in time (like Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along). Last year, I wrote about Sondheim's on-the-record comments about th ... More >>

All in the Timing Whips Up Dessert; The Laramie Cycle Proves Deeply Worth Digesting

The sweet and the sobering

All In The Timing Revival: My Review

All In The Timing is the 1993 collection of six shorts plays by David Ives, which is being done by Primary Stages, where it originated and helped seal Ives' career as a playwright to watch and listen to. It's a witty assortment of playlets about the challenges of communication amidst the constant h ... More >>

Sondheim's Next Show Will Go Backwards!

One of the great Stephen Sondheim's few missteps--1981's Merrily We Roll Along--boldly uses a time structure that goes backwards, starting with the present and progressing (or regressing) back to the roots of the relationships. I always found that device deeply annoying, requiring way too much brai ... More >>

Venus in Fur

Venus in Fur: Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda Take S&M Uptown

David Ives's play makes its Broadway transfer

Venus In Fur On Broadway: My Review

​When Nina Arianda entered the stage last year in the off-Broadway production of David Ives's Venus In Fur, playing Vanda, a frazzled yet manipulative actress who's late for an audition, it was almost like she was actually auditioning for all of us. This was our first glimpse of the brand new ... More >>

Measure for Measure: Sex and the Citizens

David Esbjornson's Shakespeare production puts an urban hell in Central Park

The School for Lies—Fake Frenchies Fib Furiously!

Both honesty and Molière go camping in David Ives's new comedy at CSC

LIAR, LIAR

What would you do for love?

This Week's Voice: tUnE-yArDs, Lil Wayne's Rebirth, Alan Lomax in Haiti, Steve McQueen, the Red Riding Triptych, and More

tUnE-yArDs, now proudly R-rated. Photo by Chrissy Piper.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla conducts an occasionally embarrassing chat with one-woman feral folk sensation tUnE-yArDs (contains sex talk!), Brandon Soderberg catches up with Howard Stern's favorite headbanger, Richard Chri ... More >>

David Ives' Venus in Fur Eyes Sex, Power, and the Theater

Welcome to Irving Berlin's White Christmas

The dead guy brought all the gifts

Spinoza debates God in David Ives's The New Jerusalem

Also: The 39 Steps joshes theater and film

This Fun for Hire

Nothing to laugh about this season? Yellow Face and Is He Dead? might help you out.

New Column: Holy Shitwhistle, It's William Bowers!

Romancing the Francophone

French playwright Yasmina Reza takes prisoners

Short-Form Filing

Marathon display of the ancient art and variegated pleasures of the one-act

Mild Kingdom

Three pieces of fluff prove that, where fun's concerned, the past is indeed another country

Partial Births

Parks Faces Tragedy; Ives Masks Comedy

Listings

Grave Occasions

Ellen Lauren, Lone Woolf

The SITI Company Makes a 'Room' of Its Own

Tryst and Shout

To Pee or Not to Pee

‘Urinetown!’ Gets Ready to Make Its Mark

Love and War in Louisville

The 2000 Humana Festival of New American Plays

Playing It Again